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8vo., green boards and blue cloth lettered in black; dust jacket, with minor soiling. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed: "Presented to Dr. Philip C. Jessup, by K. R. R. Sastry, with high regard, 15/7/66," on the front endpaper; accompanied by a letter from Sastry to Jessup regarding a lecture about the politics of South Africa, sponsored by the Gandhi-Tagore Trust. ---- The recipient, Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague and veteran U.S. diplomat, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then- Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," General Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. Apparently Jessup attended the Indian Jurist Sastry's lecture, after which he felt "honored by your presence." A scarce work with a distinguished provenance. Seller Inventory # ABE-16488869121
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